Hello, I'm Monica Rineagle, host of the Nutrition Diva podcast. Welcome back to our special series on bone health in observation of osteoporosis awareness month.

These bonus episodes will be publishing each Monday in May, and these are in addition

to our usual Nutrition Diva episodes that publish each Wednesday.

And the entire series on bone health, once it's complete, will also be available on our website

at quick and dirty tips.com slash bones. Once again, we are grateful

to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association for helping to make this special series possible.

The NCBA is a contractor to the Beef Checkoff program, a USDA supervised program that funds

research into human nutrition, food safety, environmental aspects,

and other topics, and also supports efforts such as this one to make that information more

widely available. For any of you listening, who are registered dietitians, I want to remind you

that this entire podcast series has been approved

by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for one and a half hours of continuing education

credit. At the end of the series, you'll be able to access those credits, as well as the

episodes themselves, by going to the Beef Nutrition Education Hub at beefnutritioneducation.org.

Over the course of the month, we are looking at bone health as it unfolds throughout the

lifespan. In the first episode, we focused on the unique opportunities and challenges to building

healthy bones during childhood, looking at diet and nutrition, as well as other aspects

of lifestyle. And in this episode, we're going to talk about teens and young adults, what's

happening in terms of bone metabolism during this time of life, as well as the dramatic

shifts in lifestyle that unfold during this very dynamic time of life.

By the end of your 20s, your bones are about as strong as they are ever going to be.

That means that the teen and the young adult years

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